Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese led the stars at the Giorgio Armani Pre-Oscars Party in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Ahead of the Academy Awards on Sunday, the 37-year-old actress and her Killers of the Flower Moon director looked sophisticated chic in their all-black ensembles as they arrived at the Giorgio Armani flagship store on Rodeo Drive.
Wearing a couture skirt and tuxedo jacket, Lily effortlessly exuded movie star glamour while Martin cut a classic figure in his sharp suit.
The pair were joined by such luminaries as Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan and Dua Lipa’s boyfriend, British heartthrob Callum Turner.
The star-studded shindig is ‘hosted by Roberta Armani in celebration of Martin Scorsese on the occasion of his historic 10th Academy Award nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon,’ according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese led the stars at the Giorgio Armani Pre-Oscars Party in Los Angeles on Saturday
The tribute to the legendary filmmaker comes after Lily, Martin and Leonardo DiCaprio reunited to discuss all things Killers of the Flower Moon.
The Hollywood heavyweights posed for the cover of Variety and got candid about the making of the drama, its long runtime and the glaring Oscar snub for star Leonardo.
Lily defended her costar to the outlet, stating that both she and her parents were outraged by the omission.
‘They were pissed,’ she said. ‘He was the first to text me congratulations, with popping confetti. I told him how upset we all were.’
When 96th annual Academy Award nominations were revealed, Martin landed his 10th Best Director nod while Lily received one for Best Actress, becoming the first Native American to be nominated in that category.
The 3 1/2 hour film received a total of eight more Oscar nominations – but the Titanic star was left out in the cold.
‘My nomination is equal parts his. I would not have been able to do what I did without his generosity as an actor and as a human being,’ Lily added.
In the film, Leo plays World War I veteran Ernest Burkhart, who falls in love with an Osage woman, Lily’s Mollie Kyle.
Wearing a couture skirt and tuxedo jacket, Lily effortlessly exuded movie star glamour
Martin cut a classic figure in his sharp suit
The party was thrown in honor of Martin’s 10th Oscar nomination
Scorsese chimed in, arguing Leo’s performance speaks for itself.
‘He went so far into the complexities and contradictions of a man who was so weak, so malleable, who did such unspeakable things, but who also truly loved his wife,’ the filmmaking icon explained.
‘Leo fearlessly created a true Everyman … an Everyman that people just don’t want to acknowledge. So that will endure.’
Leonardo has yet to make a public statement about the snub, although he did take to his Instagram to recognize the Oscar nominations.
‘Congratulations to my dear friend @LilyGladstone for making Oscars history, as the first Native American woman to be nominated for Best Actress in Killers Of The Flower Moon, and the fourth Indigenous actress to ever earn a nomination in the category,’ he gushed.
‘And to this powerful film’s nine other nominations – telling this story with all of you has been an honor.’
As for the criticism over the movie’s length, Scorsese explained to Variety, ‘I really don’t know how to respond to it except for the fact that many people seem to go with it.
‘This one felt right [at this length], and I felt that while I was watching it. I felt inside of it.’
Kathryn Newton stunned in a plunging gown for the event
The stunning actress stole the spotlight in her couture number as it featured a sheer silhouette
She kept her blonde tresses swept up in a chic bun
Dua Lipas boyfriend Callum Turner made the cut for the invite-only shindig
He also talked about hiring Lily for the role on the spot.
‘What I saw Lily do in Certain Women —how she commanded the space and the screen and the emotional impact of what appeared to be minimal and very internal—that’s what I was looking for.
‘We had just started developing the character, and I felt that Lily had it in her. That she would seriously find her.’
In January, Lily made history at the 81st Golden Globe Awards when she took home the Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama, making her the first Indigenous actor to win an award in the ceremony’s 81-year history.
In the film, Lily– who uses she/they pronouns — portrayed Burkhart, an Osage woman whose family members are tragically murdered in a plot to seize their fortune.
Gladstone, whose heritage includes Blackfeet and Nez Perce roots, is now just the second Native actress recognized by the Globes. The first was Irene Bedard, nominated in 1995 for the television movie Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee.
‘This is a historic one, and it doesn’t belong to just me,’ Gladstone said in English while accepting the Golden Globe, after opening their acceptance speech speaking in the Blackfeet language.
‘I’m holding it with all of my beautiful sisters in the film and my mother [in the film], Tantoo Cardinal.’
Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan looked sharp in his black suit as he arrived to the Rodeo Drive party
The star then noted that, in the past, Hollywood would create fictional Native languages instead of portraying them accurately and authentically
‘I’m so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language because in this business, Native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sound mixers would run them backwards to accomplish Native languages on camera,’ Gladstone explained.
She then thanked Chief Standing Bear and the Osage Nation as well as Scorsese, and her costars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro, for being ‘allies’.
‘This is for every little res kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves, in our own words, with tremendous allies and tremendous trust with each other.’
